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Accord Sams Bride Edge Over Rivals at Fairmount Second Week of Meet Will Open Tonight With Six in Headliner By WILLIAM C. PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., Aug. 17. The second full week of racing at this plant will get under way Tuesday with the one mile and a sixteenth Myrtle-wood Purse featuring the night owl program. A band of six steady performers will participate with Mrs. C. Greenes Sams Bride rated as the top contender. Officials view the coming operations with increased enthusiasm as a series of strikes in neighboring St. Louis, from where" a majority of this plants patrons are .drawn, have come to a conclusion. That they had an influence on the business here was demonstrated -last week when the attendance and mutuel play fell below the success of the spring meeting. The recovery was equally noticeable when, with the labor-management difficulties settled, a generous crowd of 10,572 turned out Saturday evening and wagered a healthy 32,081. Sams Bride rates top consideration over her rivals in the Myrtlewood despite a poor performance her last outing here on Thursday. The four-year-old filly, a gray daughter of Gray Jack, gets in with a feathery 103 pounds, including a seven-pound apprentice allowance. Last spring she won an allowance test and a conditioned handicap at this meeting and she seems to have a slight edge in class over this field. Sams Biide is at her best when able to race with the pace, and she fortunately drew the outside starting stall which should enable her a free run away from the gate to secure a forward position. D. Pallets Bouncing Bern was outrun in a sprint effort last week, but the distance of the Myrtlewood is much more to- his liking. Mad Cord, a shifty performer owned by George McFarland, moves up in claiming price from ,750 to ,500, but will draw support from his winning jaunt the last time out. J. W. Coopers Execution, who finished third to Mad Cord, has an excellent chance to reverse that decision.
